A journey of finding primordial purity of thought,word and action within oneself.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Vivekananda reflections

In the honor of the liberated soul,whose wisdom has sustained for 100 years and whose words fill you up with power on any given day. Here are a few of his famous quotes which strike a chord with me right now.

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not collecting of facts

The more the power of concentration, the more knowledge is acquired, because concentration is the one and only method of acquiring knowledge

If you have assimilated five ideas, and made them your life and character, you have more education than anyman who has got by heart a whole library

All knowledge depends on the calmness of the mind

Do not spend your energy in talking but meditate in silence. Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality

The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will power

Purify yourself first. The world is bound to be purified then

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control

Vedanta does not say give up enjoyment but transcend it

There is no progress without corresponding digression

There is only one real desire, to know what is true, to be spiritual

Love never asks, never begs. Love loves for the sake of love itself

Through the heart the Lord speaks and through the intellect you yourself speak

The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and do good - that is the whole of religion

We shall all die! Bear this in mind always and then the spirit within will wake up. Then all meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body.

Take my advice, set yourselves wholly to the service of others, believe me, far greater happiness would then be yours than if you had a whole treasury full of money and other valuables at your command.

If in this hell of a world, one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true. All else is mere moonshine.

Blessed are those whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others

If you really want the good of others, the whole Universe may stand against you and can't hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord himself in you, if you are sincere and really unselfish.

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you multiplied a thousand fold - but the attention must not be on that

Let us be progressive as any nation that ever existed, and at the same time faithful and conservative towards our traditions as Hindus alone know how to be

Do not be dragged away out of this Indian life, do not for a moment think that it would be better for India, if all the Indians dressed, ate and behaved like any other race

It is only in the homes of educated and pious mothers, that great men are born

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles

All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves, therefore make your own future

All power is within you, do not believe that you are weak. You can do anything and everything.

Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others

Let the dead past bury its dead. The infinite future is before you

What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which thunderbolt is made

Stand up, be bold, be strong and know that you are the creator of your own destiny

All the secret of success is to pay as much attention to the means as to the end

One ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk

Three men cannot act in concert together in India for five minutes. Each one struggles for power and in the long run, the whole organization comes to grief

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals; place them day and night before you; and out of that will come great work.

About Me

Indian by nationality, journeyman by choice, and will be something by destiny.I seek the most sought after question in human history - Who am I? And,hopefully in the process demystify some elements of the physical, and the metaphysical world around me.